Maya Shenfeld Body, Electric ( Official Video)

Berlinbased composer and sound artist Maya Shenfelds music draws from both a classical tradition and experimental electronic techniques, blurring the boundaries between digital synthesis and organic sounds. This contrasting approach is shared with filmmaker Pedro Maia, whose combination of analogue film processing and digital techniques have featured on live cinema for artists including Vessel and Shapednoise. Shenfeld and Maia collaborate for the first time on the video for Shenfelds track Body, Electric, a track that was written during the first Covid lockdown in spring 2020 following a 10day silent meditation retreat. The track, which appears on her forthcoming Thrill Jockeyreleased album In Free Fall, is written in a classical sonata form, and combines a soaring romanticism with cycling arpeggios that reflect the physical experiences Shenfeld has had when meditating. The introduction came through Matt from Thrill Jockey, and as I discovered Pedros work I immediately became a fan a